I have tried both over the years. KDE rally has some great customization, but I come back to GNOME because it feels like the while DE is purposefully designed. GNOME Disks has built in backup and restore ISO files also, which I have found helpful for SDcards duplication. And there is an option to attach Isos or image files so you can mount them as loop devices and see the contents inside.
That behavior is controlled in the gnome user session defaults
Running Tubleweed with Gnome, and the App is Disks. The user session defaults are accessed via dconf editor and you can set your system wide default for auto mounting, or manually tweak each drive via disks.I
Yast Partitioner was other screenshots, also has options to do the same if you run KDE tumbledweed, or you could install Disks.
GNOME has user session defaults that can automount, but also YAST partitioner can play with fstab if you want.
Not true, if you format a NTFS or fat in windows, then remove drive letter, it won’t auto Mount, same I’d you format it in Linux to a windows format and add to your PC, it prompts for a drive letter.
As for Linux, your user session defaults determine if it automounts or not. Mine USD set to automount, so you can see in this screen the 80gig drive was auto mounted, but you can turn off USD and use specific mount options.
Same with windows, first time you plug in it asks for drive letter, (which is mounting) if you hit ignore, that disk won’t be mounted at reboot, but if you choose a letter it will
You can set it to do that. Same as you do in windows when you assign a drive letter, it then will automount that drive. You can do that in Linux in the disks tool
I think that was part of a Windows 11 update, but I’d have to find the article
This article is more for a headless server. Any DE is going to present disks to you. And if some odd quirky drive doesn’t, you go into the disks app and click the play icon on the drive you want to mount
So on windows a drive will not automount the first time, you have to assign a drive letter, which it then remembers. If you skip this its just a drive in the device manager with no mount.
You can accomplish the same in Linux so the drive automounts on boot with a nofail option so that if it is disconnected from the PC the boot moves on rather than waiting on the drive to become available. But otherwise thr DE will let you mount it instantly.
This is a non problem. Linux has issues but drive mounting is not one of them.
What are you running? Mine just shows up, I double click it and supply the encryption password and it’s mounted. (Which could be skipped if it wasn’t encrypted)
Science has newly discovered a measurable personality trait, where a person acts against facts and logic if they feel they are winning against an enemy (even a non tangible enemy). It explains why US Christians would vote in a pedo rapist felon, because they think they are winning something.
Oof. Those parents are horrible. At least you tried to do the right think for the little dude.
I thought they started blocking that work around.
Also +1 for describing things like the quotes and preferred username.
We had a guy doing remote file copy on a Unix system. Hr was given a sample like:
Scp john@server2:/data/incoming/filename.prt /home/john/files
He tried 5 times then complained to IT that the system couldn’t find the file to transfer.
IT realized he wasn’t replacing filename with his filename he just assumed the server new which file he wanted by typing filename. Lol.
Had a user given instructions to delete log data in C:/users/myusername/logs
User replies to IT: my system does not have a folder called “myusername”
Once I updated to OpenSUSE 15 everything was working so well it got boring, because there was no fixes or no tweaks needed, I had to start some other projects to keep me occupied.
They already are poised for this as subscription service, they are selling mini PCs called 365 Link that only have enough OS to reach the cloud and run all M365 apps online… https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/link
Fuschia, I think it was called. Their own Linux like OS, but with all their own custom tools
They supply source code you can build for other phones and tweak parts to get it working, but yeah that is out of reach for most people.
If you are looking for a cheap way, that has good sound, these dell surround systems are often on Craigslist. I paid $15 for mine, and it’s loud enough for a small place…too loud to turn up full in my 850 sqft.